For those cinephiles among you who might actually care what I think (since I ended up seeing an ungodly amount of film theatrically this year), my belated and tentative Top 10 Films of 2012 in no particular order:
- Beyond the Black Rainbow
- Cosmopolis
- Django Unchained
- Holy Motors
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- Killer Joe
- The Master
- Oslo, August 31st
- Samsara
- Zero Dark Thirty
Pina* (de facto - screened in February but was included in the 2012 Oscar Nominee set)
(Still pending (since all of them have yet to screen in Seattle): "Amour", "Passion", and "Rust & Bone")
*Honorable Mention*
- Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry
- Alps
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Chasing Ice
- Dark Horse
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Eden
- How To Survive A Plague
- Keyhole
- Looper
- North Sea Texas
- Prometheus
- The Secret World of Arietty
- Skyfall
- The Source
- Wuthering Heights
*Missed and Wished I'd Caught*
- Goodbye (Mohamed Rasoulof, 2011)
- Headshot (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2011)
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
- Mekong Hotel/Ashes (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul, 2012)
- Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
- This is Not a Movie (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011)
*Consolatory Raspberries (i.e. those that were a total, irredeemable waste of time and money)*
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- The Bourne Legacy
- Deadfall
- The Expendables 2
- Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
- The Glass Man
- Hitchcock
- Jack Reacher
- John Carter
- Premium Rush
- Red Dawn
- Safety Not Guaranteed
- Save The Date
- Taken 2
- Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
- Total Recall
- V/H/S
(Feel free to submit any questions or comments regarding this.)
